[sarchertech]

Obviously there are many problems in the web world that are just as hard as problems in the game world. Some of them are even the same problems.

But having done both, making any game beyond the absolute most basic game in Unity is harder than what 95% of web developers do day to day.

I’m currently in web dev because it pays so much better, but game dev really is more technically challenging than most web dev.

It’s hard to compare average skill levels between the 2 because so many people are drawn to games because they love them and to the web because of the pay. But if I had to guess, I’d put my money on there being a significantly higher floor for game dev.

[pas]

Sure, I also think game dev is more challenging than frontend webdev (and definitely more challenging than BUA MVC CRUD-fests on the backend), but IMHO any safety-critical[0] shit is simply where things start to get serious, though maybe it gets less challenging because most of it is paperwork, and if it works you are pretty sure it keeps working. All of this was also true of government, until quite recently.

[0] Which Musk maybe have heard of given he has a bit of experience lurking around automotive tech.